YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2019

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Don’t gamble on your losses with a leadership failure like Mediocre Mike. The bar tab will leave you with a hangover that may cost you your company’s reputation.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Founded in 1999, Etail was one of the first conferences devoted to e-commerce, and it remains one of the biggest. Affiliate Summit is another conference that’s global in scope, with outposts in Singapore and Las Vegas. Yoast ’s “mad scientist” Jono Alderson and Unbounce co-founder Oli Gardner will also have much wisdom to impart.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

Embodying the informal, casual wit of the company, the founding of Innocent is summarized on their website in the form of a charming story as follows: “We started innocent in 1999 after selling our smoothies at a music festival.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Of all the Chinese innovation programs, Torch is the one that was run like a startup – iterating and pivoting as it learned and discovered.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 287

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. Virtual goods are in fact booming on a global basis and in many instances deliver a much higher ARPU than advertising revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. He took charge and challenged his team to put together a creative plan to ensure it never happened again. Are you an executive and a firefighter in your company?

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. And within four he ran global operations across 5 countries including the United States. He’s very talented.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Phil Leahy, CEO Retail Global is passionate about making connections and has founded 2 major annual conferences for digital retailers. The Retail Global conferences were launched to cater for new businesses who will potentially become the large E-Commerce businesses of the future. So what can you implement quickly to increase profit.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. In order to successfully incorporate China into a global mobile strategy, US entrepreneurs must drill down to the local level to reach both Tier 1 and Tier 2 markets. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 22, 2015

Social Solutions Global from Baltimore announced Monday it has acquired Austin-based Community Techknowledge. CTK, founded in 1999, has more than 60 employees. Both companies are privately held and the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Of all the Chinese innovation programs, Torch is the one that was run like a startup – iterating and pivoting as it learned and discovered.

Programming 179

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 179

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

First they pivoted from video rentals by mail to smart suggestions by algorithm then they followed by leading the streaming revolution to now global domination. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. Well done Reed! Thanks to Paige Arnof-Fenn, Mavens & Moguls !

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this book Anand explains from the inside how the emergent global elite pretend to try to ‘change the world for the better’, but in doing so really just obfuscate their desire to preserve the status quo and their role in causing the problems they pretend to try and solve. Yes, it will come back even stronger.

Software Review 48

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. Global business magazine placed Teva CEO Shlomo Yanai 20th on its list of the top 50 leading businesspeople in the world.

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Austin Startup

MAY 23, 2019

When I came to Austin in 1999, ATI was one of the only organizations supporting entrepreneurs in Texas. Now is the time to focus on Austin’s potential to use technology to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges in a way that starts locally and scales globally.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. To the first question, I would point to three main factors –payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. For the U.S.

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] By 2024, at least ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. Since 1999, the U.S. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population. And only one percent of these who had access also had mobile phones. Consider the numbers. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He currently has a 1999 strategy. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

How does a globally-influential trade organization that counts 400 companies in its roster and is charged with driving the evolution of an entire industry get its start? Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship.

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Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. Let’s not forget that Time Magazine featured Alan Greenspan, Rob Rubin and Larry Summers on the cover in February 1999 with the headline: “The Committee to Save the World.” The point here isn’t to be Pollyannaish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Back in 1999, Amazon patented a feature and changed their own process and on-line commerce forever: One-click purchasing, versus re-entering name, address, and credit card information for every transaction. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

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Artificial Inteligence Reputation Viral America 205

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. In the U.S.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999). Anti-lock brakes –> again debuting on Chrysler Imperials in 1971.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. The relationship qualities, founded on mutual respect, that were common 100 years ago are still essential today and without them organizations fail.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. To the first question, I would point to three main factors –payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. For the U.S.

Brazil 54

Brazil Angel Investor India China 54

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. The remainder failed as a result of the phenomenon of investing in the best deals in their region which typically were not competitive on a national or global scale. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Photo Credit: Ajay Prasad.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. He told me that he was leading the project globally and gave me the name of the lead Japanese partner. They also knew that I was from NorCal, which in 1999 was a huge bonus to foreign companies thinking about Internet strategies.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

Can any other organization offer a kinesthetic and whole-brained process for turning global trends into new strategies and breakthrough ideas for your organization? ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. Still, show me another innovation consulting company that is offering what KILN offers.

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Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Unfortunately, and founders notwithstanding, the collective global capitalist experience since private property rights were invented and enforced has shown that there aren’t enough of those people on this planet. Can these be separated? How can such a company ensure that the culture will continue after the founder’s eventual succession?”.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2018

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. He will likely chuckle, wish you much success and suggest that you will have to make that decision for yourself. But regardless of your goals, Jerry will say, “be the best YOU that you can be.”. .

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. And what interests me is who makes the money on timing these trends. .

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